Schweitzer, Widor, and the Musical and Artistic History of St. Sulpice

Item# PO-6DVD

$30.00

Product Description

Daniel Roth explains the history of music and art at the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, beginning before the French Revolution and continuing through the time of Albert Schweitzer. Both of the two organs at St. Sulpice are featured: the famous (and now beautifully restored) five-manual Cavaillé-Coll Grande Orgue built 1857-62 in the West gallery and incorporating the earlier organ by Clicquot; and the two-manual, 28-rank Cavaillé-Coll organ built in 1858 in the front of the church to accompany the choir, with Roth performing more than 45 minutes of music on them. The stereo sound quality is exceptional, in digital stereo on the DVD and in excellent VHS-HiFi on the videotape version. Roth plays the following: